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when americans discover how bad obama care is and when obama care starts bankrupting state governments, i think you're going to see a huge rebellion against this president and his policies. >> but when -- when are they going to figure that out, senator? we've been talking about obama care for a long time now, and it's already costing businesses, you know, enormous amounts of money and stopping them from hiring any new headsed to the payroll so when are we going to figure this out in your view? when do you think that happens? >> when republicans begin to present our message better and we tell people whether you're rich, poor or middle class you'll have more jobs and more money if we leave money in your state, leave money in your pocket and that's how the economy will grow. when people figure that out, i think they will come back to the republican party, but they also have to see that what he's planning for us is -- it is bankrupting us as we speak. we're borrowing $50,000 a second and it can't go on. >> i didn't know it was a second. >> let me ask you about one other issue before we let
when americans discover how bad obama care is and when obama care starts bankrupting state governments, i think you're going to see a huge rebellion against this president and his policies. >> but when -- when are they going to figure that out, senator? we've been talking about obama care for a long time now, and it's already costing businesses, you know, enormous amounts of money and stopping them from hiring any new headsed to the payroll so when are we going to figure this out in your...
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. >> president obama didn't say which country had been plunged into darkness by computer hackers, but we found out. it was brazil. we also found out that hackers have been infiltrating everything from our defense networks to the financial systems. bank robbers are now stealing more money with computers than they are with guns. >> this map is showing a visual representation of where all of the known infections of conficker are across the world. >> computer analysts say it's like a sleeper cell, and it may be poised to suck sensitive data out of millions and millions of computers. >> it takes time to read the manuals. i'm gonna save you that time. 'cause i stay home on saturday nights and read them for you. >> you and the rest of the geeks? >> there's millions of us out there. >> everybody, let's hear it! geek squad! [cheering] >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we take a look at technology. we examine how breaches in digital security threaten everything from weapons systems to bank accounts. plus, we meet the mr. fix-its of the geek world. we begin with
. >> president obama didn't say which country had been plunged into darkness by computer hackers, but we found out. it was brazil. we also found out that hackers have been infiltrating everything from our defense networks to the financial systems. bank robbers are now stealing more money with computers than they are with guns. >> this map is showing a visual representation of where all of the known infections of conficker are across the world. >> computer analysts say it's...
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companies fighting back against president obama's new health care law. financial times reporting a few employers considering cutting hours of workers so they are not qualified as fulltime workers, rather than in insuring their staff. and other things, paying the penalty instead of paying to in sure. we could have seen this coming, couldn't we? >> there's gambling in casablanca, tyler. i can't believe it. look, remember when they started prescription drug plan for elderly seniors. before medicare didn't cover that. part d. do you know what a good chunk of the cost was? the government wrote checks to corporations so they would not dump seniors from retirement plans if they had been covering medicine already. this was so predicted, chronicle of a big gap in the plan foretold. >> eamon, many people out there believe after all this could end up with fewer people covered than more people covered. i don't know if you subscribe to that but it's an argument out there. >> this is such a big and sprawling new law, hard to they will what the unintended consequences
companies fighting back against president obama's new health care law. financial times reporting a few employers considering cutting hours of workers so they are not qualified as fulltime workers, rather than in insuring their staff. and other things, paying the penalty instead of paying to in sure. we could have seen this coming, couldn't we? >> there's gambling in casablanca, tyler. i can't believe it. look, remember when they started prescription drug plan for elderly seniors. before...
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last night on the state of the union, we heard president obama talk about it. i don't know if there's going to be backing from both sides. this is the place you want to be. >> guy? >> hi there. we have a little time. all my efforts have been this warted to take you to qdoba, especially for valentine's day. >> i'm free right now. >> i decided to bring -- >> aw! >> did you eat half it? >> i got us a meat salad and a large drink, one straw so we could share. >> that's too big for new york city, that soda. >> this is sort of our valentine's day. i'm not here tomorrow to share it with you. >> i would love to take a swig of this. >> look, look! see that? >> now i know where your true affections lie! >> it's the other woman! it's the other woman! >> what is this? >> butter cup. >> a woman in every port, mel. >> and you ate half this, by the way. half is gone. >> happy valentine's out there. >> to everybody, a day in advance. >> a day early. >> which is the way to do it. >> don't go anywhere. "mad >> i'm jim cramer, welcome to my world. you need to get in the game. ste
last night on the state of the union, we heard president obama talk about it. i don't know if there's going to be backing from both sides. this is the place you want to be. >> guy? >> hi there. we have a little time. all my efforts have been this warted to take you to qdoba, especially for valentine's day. >> i'm free right now. >> i decided to bring -- >> aw! >> did you eat half it? >> i got us a meat salad and a large drink, one straw so we could...
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president obama spoke very heavily about solar stocks and alternative energy and referenced him again in his inaugural, and they have been up really since november. >> thanks, bob. a market that is rallying here. the market is 40 minutes before the closing bell sounds, and the market is higher, 52 points, and the s&p 500 showing a nice move on the upside, as you can see there. if you can't beat them, join them. best buy is set to begin price matching against online retailers. find out which shock you're better off with next? >> after a huge outcry from fans, including bill and myself, was this a marketing debacle like new coke or stroke of genius to drive sales? stay with us here on "closing bell." would define you as an innovator. to hold more than one patent of this caliber... would define you as a true leader. ♪ to hold over 80,000... well that would make you... the creators of the 2013 mercedes-benz e-class... quite possibly the most advanced luxury sedan ever. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. >>> welcome b
president obama spoke very heavily about solar stocks and alternative energy and referenced him again in his inaugural, and they have been up really since november. >> thanks, bob. a market that is rallying here. the market is 40 minutes before the closing bell sounds, and the market is higher, 52 points, and the s&p 500 showing a nice move on the upside, as you can see there. if you can't beat them, join them. best buy is set to begin price matching against online retailers. find out...
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now under the leadership of harry reid and president obama, it's not able to pass a budget. it's not a problem with the senate. it's not a problem getting 51 senators. they've done it for decades. the problem is that no one in washington on the other side of the aisle wants to take leadership for how to get us out of the fiscal mess we're in. and not this year's fiscal mess. the mess that extends out 20, 30, 40 years. the president's budget last year never, ever, ever balanced. you can't do that. those numbers don't add up. >> all right. let's bet back to this sequester here. it comes at a time when we just learned that fourth quarter gdp was horrible compared to what we saw in the third quarter. the stock market seems to feel like things are getting back to normal, the economy's on the mend. is this the time to allow these spending cuts to take effect automatically that could take out a number -- "the new york times" says it could cost a million jobs in the economy right now. isn't this the time to think about an alternative of some kind? >> absolutely. the senate has not t
now under the leadership of harry reid and president obama, it's not able to pass a budget. it's not a problem with the senate. it's not a problem getting 51 senators. they've done it for decades. the problem is that no one in washington on the other side of the aisle wants to take leadership for how to get us out of the fiscal mess we're in. and not this year's fiscal mess. the mess that extends out 20, 30, 40 years. the president's budget last year never, ever, ever balanced. you can't do...
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obama called it a voucher. are there other things we should do? >> i tell you, 18 years in the senate, we tried desperately to do something with healthcare. we had a good bipartisan group. we met once a week. and the reality is, your congress people don't understand the situation. nobody understands the situation. so they have done this piecemeal stuff 37 we said, look, you can't let it go over 1% of gdp. can you go in there and find fat but no one will ever say that or you get ripped to shreds by the aarp and senior groups and everybody else. we were specific in what we said, about 400 billion -- trillion. 400 trillion we hammered around in there. all you have to know is that regardless of what you call it, it can't possibly work because you've got it take care of 3-year-old of the preexisting condition that may live to be 60. have you one person in america that weighs more than the other two. you have diabetes a and b. penn people doing drugs, boods and tobacco and aren't going into a wellness program. ten million a day turning 65. you have to h
obama called it a voucher. are there other things we should do? >> i tell you, 18 years in the senate, we tried desperately to do something with healthcare. we had a good bipartisan group. we met once a week. and the reality is, your congress people don't understand the situation. nobody understands the situation. so they have done this piecemeal stuff 37 we said, look, you can't let it go over 1% of gdp. can you go in there and find fat but no one will ever say that or you get ripped to...
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i think obama's second term is a different mind-set than obama first term. >> we have to leave it there. we have a packed show. david as always appreciate you coming on "street signs." thank you very much. take care. >>> on deck, is tim cook cooked? apple doesn't turn it around, should a new ceo be on the way? later on goldman sachs ceo blankfein will be here live. certainly a lot to talk about with the man who runs goldman. stick around. back after this. [ woman ] don't forget the yard work! okay. [ male announcer ] with citibank's popmoney, dan can easily send money by email right from his citibank account. nice job ben. [ male announcer ] next up, the gutters. citibank popmoney. easier banking. standard at citibank. to deposit checks from anywhere. [ wind howling ] easier than actually going to the bank. mobile check deposit. easier banking. standard at citibank. >>> big news the past hour on the future of television. jul julia, is it true i'll be on all channels all the time. >> we can only hope. the big news here, intel is getting into the tv business, new division intel media work
i think obama's second term is a different mind-set than obama first term. >> we have to leave it there. we have a packed show. david as always appreciate you coming on "street signs." thank you very much. take care. >>> on deck, is tim cook cooked? apple doesn't turn it around, should a new ceo be on the way? later on goldman sachs ceo blankfein will be here live. certainly a lot to talk about with the man who runs goldman. stick around. back after this. [ woman ]...
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i take it back if it's incorrect. >> caller: no, obama likes solar for u.s. economic reconstruction, and energy holdings recently made the largest national investment in solar at $2 billion. are sety and sbwr good to buy? >> sbwr i'm not that crazy about. solar city i have to do work on. you know, it was my birthday recently. my kids said happy birthday, you got to get a solar panel. it's like solar city, like circuit -- i don't want to do that, but how about party city? that's not there, either. but i will tell you that i think the solar city is on to something. if you can get money to put a solar panel on and cut my electric bill, you would be plenty happy. matt in texas, matt? >> hi, jim. boo-yah from austin. >> man, austin, we had such a great time when we were in austin, at u.t. it was fantastic. what's up? >> caller: hey, i'm a longtime shareholder of unh. despite, due to medicare, is a small book of business, which is down over 6%. do you think you have growth strategy, and in particular international expansion or enough to offset obamacare? >> no, no,
i take it back if it's incorrect. >> caller: no, obama likes solar for u.s. economic reconstruction, and energy holdings recently made the largest national investment in solar at $2 billion. are sety and sbwr good to buy? >> sbwr i'm not that crazy about. solar city i have to do work on. you know, it was my birthday recently. my kids said happy birthday, you got to get a solar panel. it's like solar city, like circuit -- i don't want to do that, but how about party city? that's not...
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president obama, are you listening? >> four years since rick santelli started the tea party for all intents and purposes. we'll find out what he thinks now when "squawk on the street" continues. [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. ♪ then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we've turned the page again with the rx f sport. ♪ this is the next chapter for the rx and the next chapter for lexus. this is the pursuit of perfection. with fidelity's new options platform, we've completely integrated every step of the process, making it easier to try filters and strategies... to get a list of equity options... evaluate them with our p&l calculator... and execute faster with our more intuitive trade ticket. i'm greg stevens and i helped create fidelity's options platform. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades en you open an account. but i am your rmarket data. i know what you're looking for. i'm not chained to your desk anymore. i'm faster and smarte
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isn't president obama swell muching the small business job creator? the republicans like to say that. maybe or maybe just isn't squelching hard enough. otherwise you wouldn't be seeing such monster moves. in other words, business is strong enough to merit companies talking to each other about combining rather than thinking if you stick around and compete, it's almost a matter of time before the other guy keels over. the last man standing game seems like it's history. maybe this is a merger between two companies who failed to keel over. more important, though, it's a merger born of confidence, confidence that despite the runs in the stocks there had much more up side, because things are just plain better than we might realize. even though the stocks are up from where they were, they're down huge from when times are going. that's the theme behind almost all the deals we've seen, all the ones worth talking it's the commonalty of the breathtaking numbers of takeovers, in a last year rather than ratcheting up as seems to be the case now. >>> all right. let
isn't president obama swell muching the small business job creator? the republicans like to say that. maybe or maybe just isn't squelching hard enough. otherwise you wouldn't be seeing such monster moves. in other words, business is strong enough to merit companies talking to each other about combining rather than thinking if you stick around and compete, it's almost a matter of time before the other guy keels over. the last man standing game seems like it's history. maybe this is a merger...
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with no bad debt expense with more people using hospitals because of obama care it's going to keep going. >> media stocks have done quite well. cbs? >> cbs is great. i like, i mean, the wyndham, the number one on that list earnings wednesday next week, judge. i like this one because barry sternwick was on cnbc i think monday this week. he of course with starwood and so forth talking about how properties around the world have appreciated and perhaps how they're not valuing properly the land underneath many of those properties. wyndham is a beneficiary of that. and obviously any of the reitization of any of these companies could also put a lot more on the bottom line. >> and the whole travel and leisure complex has done very, very well. >> yes. >> through the year. airlines, priceline, so that's wyndham as well. >> something we haven't talked about yeah we've talked about this move back to 14,000 on the overall market but not what was leading today. that was telecos. that is the leadership group today. what is your outlook? kind of amazing. what's happening, what is driving the telecos tod
with no bad debt expense with more people using hospitals because of obama care it's going to keep going. >> media stocks have done quite well. cbs? >> cbs is great. i like, i mean, the wyndham, the number one on that list earnings wednesday next week, judge. i like this one because barry sternwick was on cnbc i think monday this week. he of course with starwood and so forth talking about how properties around the world have appreciated and perhaps how they're not valuing properly...
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. >>> president obama says more tax revenue will be needed to help reduce the deficit. he'll push to get rid of loopholes such as the carried interest tax break enjoyed by private equity firms and hedge funds. >> i don't think the issue right now is raising rates. the question is, if we're going to be serious about reducing our deficit, can we combine some smart spending cuts, because there's still waste in government, can we reform our health care programs in particular because we spend a lot more on health care than every other country does and we don't get better outcome. so there's a lot of waste in the system and there are things that we can do to reduce health care costs. >> asked about the contraction in fourth quarter gdp in the u.s., president obama blames the dysfunction in washington surrounding the fiscal cliff. a sharp drop in spending did over-shadow strong housing data. it followed unexpectedly strong defense spending in the fourth quarter. maybe some positive news there. tina, from citi, she's been taking a look at what the president has to do, i guess,
. >>> president obama says more tax revenue will be needed to help reduce the deficit. he'll push to get rid of loopholes such as the carried interest tax break enjoyed by private equity firms and hedge funds. >> i don't think the issue right now is raising rates. the question is, if we're going to be serious about reducing our deficit, can we combine some smart spending cuts, because there's still waste in government, can we reform our health care programs in particular because...
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john, this is part after constant drum beat from the white house and his team, obama's team that if we go through the sequester, it is bad, bad, bad. >> exactly right, simon. who what the white house is doing is a steady application of pressure on republicans in congress hoping this he will accept ultimately tax increases as part of a budget deal. ray whlahood, former republicanf congress, walked into the briefing room and said you may not see the effects immediately but they will be very real and build over time. here is ray lahood. >> it will ripple across the country. cuts mean preventative maintenance and quick repair of runway equipment may not be possible which could lead to more delays. >> what you heard was a hundred small airport towers could be shut down. control towers because of lack of funding. you will see 90-minute delays. furloughs every week. visitors centers, rest rooms, garbage cans won't be serviced as efficiently as they are now. again, they are trying to build a ground swell of outrage against what will happen. put pressure on republicans. republicans so far stand
john, this is part after constant drum beat from the white house and his team, obama's team that if we go through the sequester, it is bad, bad, bad. >> exactly right, simon. who what the white house is doing is a steady application of pressure on republicans in congress hoping this he will accept ultimately tax increases as part of a budget deal. ray whlahood, former republicanf congress, walked into the briefing room and said you may not see the effects immediately but they will be very...
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he's hoping president obama likes his abe-nomices, so to speak. a summit with the two leaders will be held on friday where prime minister abe is expected to deliver a policy speech entitled, "japan is back." tomo is joining me now. thanks so much for your time. is japan back? >> that's a good question. i think japan is certainly back and with the depreciation of the yen and higher stock prices, the market reacts at least that way and we think that this will impact on our financial market is going to filter through to the real economy anytime soon. >> this is the interesting point. it's one thing for investors to bid up the nikkei, to push down the yen in anticipation of the bank of japan will be extremely aggressive. we'll deliver on its inflation target. it's another to actually deliver. have we moved on that phase now where they have to deliver and how likely is it that they can? >> well, we are going to see a new governor and the two deputy governors in april. so, well, i think regardless of who is going to be the next governor, the bank of jap
he's hoping president obama likes his abe-nomices, so to speak. a summit with the two leaders will be held on friday where prime minister abe is expected to deliver a policy speech entitled, "japan is back." tomo is joining me now. thanks so much for your time. is japan back? >> that's a good question. i think japan is certainly back and with the depreciation of the yen and higher stock prices, the market reacts at least that way and we think that this will impact on our...
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president obama addressed the issue directly in his state of the union address last week. >> after shedding jobs for more than ten years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three. caterpillar is bringing jobs back from japan. ford is bringing jobs back from mexico. and this year, apple will start making macs in america again. >> but with the strengthening dollar, can u.s. companies actually afford to bring jobs back to the states? and is reshoring as it's known a trend you should be investing in right now? let's take a deeper dive with the chief investment strategist at fifth third bank. jeffrey, great to e so yosee yo. >> obviously, it's not as easy as flipping a switch to bring jobs back here, so, what is sort of the price, the baseline price, which would make sense, this reshoring trend continues when it comes to nat gas being low? >> i think it clearly makes sense in here and probably for the next decade. if you look, it's also, it's not just the price today, but it's the trends going forward, both in currency, gas prices and labor costs. >> hey, jeff, it's ti
president obama addressed the issue directly in his state of the union address last week. >> after shedding jobs for more than ten years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three. caterpillar is bringing jobs back from japan. ford is bringing jobs back from mexico. and this year, apple will start making macs in america again. >> but with the strengthening dollar, can u.s. companies actually afford to bring jobs back to the states? and is reshoring as it's...
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you've got the fiscal cliff issue resolved, and probably more importantly, president obama seems to have pulled the republicans' fangs with respect to the debt ceiling. that's probably the big risk that the market was worried about. >> you made recent changes to your 2013 allocation strategy. some of them are interesting. high volatility u.s. large caps and micro cap stocks. it would seem you're increasing the beta place. when you say u.s. large cap volatile stocks, what do you mean by that? >> well, we believe that there's an evolution in the asset classes that investors are going to be tapping into in the next decade. you know, if you look back over the last 20 years, people spent a lot of time arguing, what was the value stock, what was a growth stock. and a lot of times it was in the eye of the beholder. volatility is a much more objective mesh yasure of what a stock is. you can do very good long term, 80 and 90-year analysis of what this asset class means. and right now, we show high volatility stocks have been beaten down very, very much in the rally, relative to low volatility, so
you've got the fiscal cliff issue resolved, and probably more importantly, president obama seems to have pulled the republicans' fangs with respect to the debt ceiling. that's probably the big risk that the market was worried about. >> you made recent changes to your 2013 allocation strategy. some of them are interesting. high volatility u.s. large caps and micro cap stocks. it would seem you're increasing the beta place. when you say u.s. large cap volatile stocks, what do you mean by...
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president obama has declared connecticut a state of emergency room. local public schedules should be back on service. laura champagne, thank you for joining us. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> we wanted to explore the impact from retail on this storm. we've raised this issue before, but to what extent is a major storm like this hitting into february start to affect, perhaps, easter season, retail and shopping patterns generally speaking? is there a way to sort of trade this event? >> this particular weekend is a good weekend if you're going to have a nasty storm. it's after christmas selling season, it's after january clearance. it's before tax rebates start showing up, particularly this year, which is a bit more complicated to get your refund. so the timing really won't hurt much of retail. if you wanted to trade it, probably the way to do it would be to own home improvement companies because home depot and lowes, i'm sure, did see a pick up in their sales before this storm. >> so february being the kind of in between or quieter time as
president obama has declared connecticut a state of emergency room. local public schedules should be back on service. laura champagne, thank you for joining us. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> we wanted to explore the impact from retail on this storm. we've raised this issue before, but to what extent is a major storm like this hitting into february start to affect, perhaps, easter season, retail and shopping patterns generally speaking? is there a way to sort of trade...
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obama won the election happenedly. on this particular issue, the number of cut suss half of what you're talking about and if we can shrink the government and it's been shrinking slowly, it's good for the private sector, it's pro groul growth and i think the sequester is not to be feared. actually going to help economy and the stock market. >> defense sector, for instance, is held up under cliff worries. see how it is under these worries. >> the worst case scenarios ain't gonna happen. i have been through this when i worked for flaengt budget bureau. not going to be a government shutdown. there's going to be a continuing resolution. and they are going to reallocate from defense to non-defense. this story is going to turn out good, not bad. that's my point. going to be a plus story, not a bad story. >> larry, thank you for coming in. be sure to catch larry, "the kudlow report," every week night at 7 p.m. eastern time. coke just tanked their dividend along with walmart. talk about that in a moment. >>> google, almost $1,0
obama won the election happenedly. on this particular issue, the number of cut suss half of what you're talking about and if we can shrink the government and it's been shrinking slowly, it's good for the private sector, it's pro groul growth and i think the sequester is not to be feared. actually going to help economy and the stock market. >> defense sector, for instance, is held up under cliff worries. see how it is under these worries. >> the worst case scenarios ain't gonna...
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president obama had the courage to back him. and it turned out to be successful. in comparison, if i may say so, with what the europeans have done with their banks, where nobody knows what the numbers are, they apply a stress test that was meaningless and here we are some number of years later, they were still, and rightly so, enormous questions about many of the european banks. i think tim has done an excellent job. >> do you push for enough regulation? people look at compensation on wall street and say it's still too much. >> well i don't think that compensation was the purview of tim. you could argue about compensation one way or another and argue what role it played. that's an issue that the policy community is going to have to deal with going forward. but, it wasn't central to what he had to do. >> do you think compensation played a role? obviously the other critique on you has been that you were paid a huge amount of money, $100 million plus. no one's ever asked me and i was wondering if i could, did you get to keep all that money? a lot of it was in stock.
president obama had the courage to back him. and it turned out to be successful. in comparison, if i may say so, with what the europeans have done with their banks, where nobody knows what the numbers are, they apply a stress test that was meaningless and here we are some number of years later, they were still, and rightly so, enormous questions about many of the european banks. i think tim has done an excellent job. >> do you push for enough regulation? people look at compensation on...
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>>> president obama set to deliver the state of the union tonight at anybo9:00 eastern ti. for that, we go to rick santelli. >> welcome. welcome senator isaacson, senator from georgia. two things. i would like you to weigh in on two ideas. first, one put forth in the "washington post" yesterday. obama, job of debt reduction nearly done, the first one. 80% of the commentators i listen to on television and the media at large, hey, maybe the president will be less partisan and reach across the aisle. weigh in on those two notions. >> first of all, we're not 80% done on the debt and have a long way to go. this president needs to engage on our debt deficit. that's critical. second, i hope it won't be that partisan. hope it will be bipartisan. realizing america has a budget problem and americans have tightened their belts and it's time we did in washington. >> i'm not as optimistic as you are. after four years, i can pretty much tell you all the issues out there and a lot of good ideas. you brought up jobs. really, isn't there a philosophical difference here. that the spending mo
>>> president obama set to deliver the state of the union tonight at anybo9:00 eastern ti. for that, we go to rick santelli. >> welcome. welcome senator isaacson, senator from georgia. two things. i would like you to weigh in on two ideas. first, one put forth in the "washington post" yesterday. obama, job of debt reduction nearly done, the first one. 80% of the commentators i listen to on television and the media at large, hey, maybe the president will be less partisan...
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. >> david, obama care is coming. how is that going to affect your company? >> we see obama care as driving change in the marketplace and change is good because maybe to your core question, the status quo is not acceptable. we need to take costs out of the system and increase quality. for us, focus more on services. the change in the marketplace is a positive. one of the biggest changes we see happening in the united states is the opportunity to partner with physicians, to collaborate with physicians, to drive increases in health quality. today we have over 50 collaboratives already up and running in the united states where physicians are more paid based on the quality of outcomes haves the quality of services. as a result, people are getting better quality of outcomes, better services and costs are coming out of the system. >> david, give us a -- your outlook for the year ahead and a little bit beyond that. to what extent, when washington is -- it's in the middle right now of the process of trying to find cost savings. do you expect some of those cost saving
. >> david, obama care is coming. how is that going to affect your company? >> we see obama care as driving change in the marketplace and change is good because maybe to your core question, the status quo is not acceptable. we need to take costs out of the system and increase quality. for us, focus more on services. the change in the marketplace is a positive. one of the biggest changes we see happening in the united states is the opportunity to partner with physicians, to...
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we have the details on president obama's silicon valley-like soiree. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." it's friday. therefore, it's friday's i decisi edition of the "santelli exchange". the big issues of the day are all wrapped around debt and deficits. no matter how you want to spin it, how you want to deal with it, how you want to avoid it or how you want to get around it, these are at the epicenter. i think back, fannie, freddie, don't see many solutions. those are called government-sponsored enterprises. basically agencies of the federal government that were set up and the boiler-plate was, not guaranteed by the u.s. government. what in essence they were. now, let's think back to some of the new issues of the day, infrastructure bank. in the state of the union, the president called for this as something to build and save the country and the economy. now, let's also look at some acronyms. transportation infrastructure finance and innovation act. that will be expanded to, yes, rise of the zombie clones to create another agency very similar to freddie and fannie. it's going t
we have the details on president obama's silicon valley-like soiree. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." it's friday. therefore, it's friday's i decisi edition of the "santelli exchange". the big issues of the day are all wrapped around debt and deficits. no matter how you want to spin it, how you want to deal with it, how you want to avoid it or how you want to get around it, these are at the epicenter. i think back, fannie, freddie, don't see many...
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president obama, holding a white house open data day hack-a-thon. today. joe had a different view of what a hack-a-thon was in the white house. but we'll bring -- >> bringing back gibbs and axelrod, and -- >> colleagues of yours. >> colleagues of yours. okay. we're going to continue on. the administration is inviting developers and tech experts to come share some ideas, hack-a-thons are common in the tech industry with the goal to figuring out creative solutions to problems you may remember facebook engineers celebrated their ipo by having a hack-a-thon. don't worry, jim. >> you got to love the name hack-a-thon, don't you? >> the fed minutes spooked investors on thursday. and our next guest took to twitter to offer his thoughts. joining us right now is bill gross. he is the co-cio founder and managing director at pimco and bill it's great to see you this morning thanks for getting up early with us. >> thank you, becky. i'm wide awake. >> we have been talking about your tweet all morning long. talked a little bit earlier just for anybody who didn't see it.
president obama, holding a white house open data day hack-a-thon. today. joe had a different view of what a hack-a-thon was in the white house. but we'll bring -- >> bringing back gibbs and axelrod, and -- >> colleagues of yours. >> colleagues of yours. okay. we're going to continue on. the administration is inviting developers and tech experts to come share some ideas, hack-a-thons are common in the tech industry with the goal to figuring out creative solutions to problems...
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effectively these guys are now kicking the ball back into obama's court. watch for comment on that in the state of the union address next week. >> just a few days ahead. get home before the snow starts building up. >> i'm running. >> thanks so much. >>> prominent business leaders met with senior administration officials yesterday on cutting the debt with budget cuts and new tax nues santelli has more on that. >> welcome, governor. it's great to have you. i know you didn't attend the most recent roundtable meeting at the white house. but maybe you can give me your sense of the current administration and how the business roundtable is trying to navigate. i have three topics. the first one is regulation. i just finished the isaacson book about jobs. first of all, he was wrong. he thought the president would be a one-term president. but when he talked about things like regulatory issues, he said, why should it be easier for the chinese to build a factory here in the u.s.? your thoughts, sir? >> well, the reason i wasn't at the white house, i was over across th
effectively these guys are now kicking the ball back into obama's court. watch for comment on that in the state of the union address next week. >> just a few days ahead. get home before the snow starts building up. >> i'm running. >> thanks so much. >>> prominent business leaders met with senior administration officials yesterday on cutting the debt with budget cuts and new tax nues santelli has more on that. >> welcome, governor. it's great to have you. i know...
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. >> the other pressure could be obama care. do you think that they will expand to employees but no more? what is the impact that you see? >> that is the biggest concern of our franchisees. they don't have enough information. they don't know what they're looking forward to. it's causing a lot of concern. that, too, will also pass through the consumer. >> would it be a big subway outlet, wouldn't it? >> single store has about a dozen employees. >> it's 13 years since you wrote the book "start small, finish big" which was about grass roots entrepreneurship. do you think the environment for those chasing the american dream by setting up their own business has gotten worse or better in those 13 years? >> it's continuously gotten worse, because there's more and more regulations. it's tougher for people to get into business. especially a small business. i tell you, if i started subway today, subway would not exist. because i had an easy time of it in the '60s when i started. i just see a continuous increase in regulation. >> do you ha
. >> the other pressure could be obama care. do you think that they will expand to employees but no more? what is the impact that you see? >> that is the biggest concern of our franchisees. they don't have enough information. they don't know what they're looking forward to. it's causing a lot of concern. that, too, will also pass through the consumer. >> would it be a big subway outlet, wouldn't it? >> single store has about a dozen employees. >> it's 13 years...
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tomorrow we preview president obama's state of the union. i'm lorenzo. i work for 47 different companies. well, technically i work for one. that company, the united states postal service®, works for thousands of home businesses. because at usps.com®, you can pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. i can even drop off free boxes. i wear a lot of hats. well, technically i wear one. the u.s. postal service®, no business too small.
tomorrow we preview president obama's state of the union. i'm lorenzo. i work for 47 different companies. well, technically i work for one. that company, the united states postal service®, works for thousands of home businesses. because at usps.com®, you can pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. i can even drop off free boxes. i wear a lot of hats. well, technically i wear one. the u.s. postal service®, no business too small.
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live to washington for the details on that next. >>> president obama saying the u.s. can reduce its budget deficit. john harwood has more. >> the big question in washington is what is the next budget deal to reduce the deficit going to be? what is going to be in it? will it be spending cuts or revenue? the president said in the super bowl interview with scott pelley yesterday that it has to include revenue and singled out one in particular, that is the carried interest loophole. >> i don't think the issue right now is raising rates. there is no doubt we need additional revenue coupled with smart spending reductions, in order to bring down our deficit. and we can do it in a gradual way so it doesn't have a huge impact. the average person doesn't have access to carried interest income where they end up paying a much lower rate on billions of dollars that they have earned. >> now, going into the president's favor as he tries to go after this is a widespread belief on wall street, even that this is an unjustified loophole, one of the top figures on wall street told me the
live to washington for the details on that next. >>> president obama saying the u.s. can reduce its budget deficit. john harwood has more. >> the big question in washington is what is the next budget deal to reduce the deficit going to be? what is going to be in it? will it be spending cuts or revenue? the president said in the super bowl interview with scott pelley yesterday that it has to include revenue and singled out one in particular, that is the carried interest loophole....
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sales did increase in the wake of what happened in newtown as well as concerns president obama would try to restrict gun sales. more on that on my blog tradertalk.cnbc.com. >> bob, welcome home. good to see you back. rick santelli in chicago. good morning, rick. >> good morning, carl. we've all heard the news, there's a lot of gdp shrinkage in japan and third quarter, eurozone. it's very difficult to tell sometimes. look at a 24-hour chart of our ten-year, think what the multinational companies are thinking, looks like rates going you up, auctioned off ten-years, 24 billion. there's a rogue, a new guy on the block. it distorts it a bit. you can see we're coming back down. these yields on this new guy, still a good chance we'll settle above 201.5 close, going back to early april. if you look at a two-day chart of the boone, you can see dynamics in place, about face, suggestion of data, weaker data showed up in the marketplace. look at spain, this is really interesting. a two-week chart of spain basically, wow, these yields are really going down. are even the southern countries have th
sales did increase in the wake of what happened in newtown as well as concerns president obama would try to restrict gun sales. more on that on my blog tradertalk.cnbc.com. >> bob, welcome home. good to see you back. rick santelli in chicago. good morning, rick. >> good morning, carl. we've all heard the news, there's a lot of gdp shrinkage in japan and third quarter, eurozone. it's very difficult to tell sometimes. look at a 24-hour chart of our ten-year, think what the...
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ron, republicans could push president obama to accept further budget cuts by threatening to shut down the government. we've heard one leading republican senator, johnny isaacson, you've heard him say it's a very bad idea. could we be headed down the road to a shutdown? >> i think we are probably not heading down in that direction, there's republicans who have talked about that. but the could be census of sentiment seems to be moving on a different path now. i think what republicans are looking at more now is taking the sequester cuts and then codifying them as you note a continuing resolution to extend the government funding through the rest of the year and in effect daring the democrats to shut down the government by refusing to accept those large cuts in both discretionary and defense spending. >> david, you have served four u.s. presidents, including three republicans, richard nixon, gerald ford and ronald reagan. as well as an 18-month stint as counselor to democratic president bill clinton. you left the clinton administration before his showdown with republicans in congress that
ron, republicans could push president obama to accept further budget cuts by threatening to shut down the government. we've heard one leading republican senator, johnny isaacson, you've heard him say it's a very bad idea. could we be headed down the road to a shutdown? >> i think we are probably not heading down in that direction, there's republicans who have talked about that. but the could be census of sentiment seems to be moving on a different path now. i think what republicans are...
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i want to know which of president obama's 35 ideas you would support. this day calls you. to fight chronic osteoarthritis pain. to fight chronic low back pain. to take action. to take the next step. today, you will know you did something for your pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a pain reliever fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. anti-depressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not for children under 18. people taking maois, linezolid or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported. signs include abdominal pain and yellowing skin or eyes. tell your doctor about all your medicines, including those for migraine and while on cymbalta, call right away if you have high fever,
i want to know which of president obama's 35 ideas you would support. this day calls you. to fight chronic osteoarthritis pain. to fight chronic low back pain. to take action. to take the next step. today, you will know you did something for your pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a pain reliever fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in...
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that doesn't matter at this point because president obama delayed submitting a new budget proposal to congress this month by blaming the fiscal cliff battle in december for putting his team behind schedule. that means congress has to choose to vote to extend another continuing resolution before march 27th or we face a government shutdown. last week i talked to senator johnny isakson, a republican from georgia, on this show. he said a republican shutdown would be a bad idea. >> making sure social security checks are delivered is important. but it's a better idea to run the country the way it's supposed to be done. if you have to change the tax code, do it but in the context of the macro sense not the micro. >> can't agree more. david gergen, cnn senior political analyst and professor of public service and director of the center of public leadership at the harvard kennedy school and ron brownstein, executive director at the "national journal" magazine in washington. good to see you. ron, republicans could push president obama to push further spending cuts by threatening to shut down the
that doesn't matter at this point because president obama delayed submitting a new budget proposal to congress this month by blaming the fiscal cliff battle in december for putting his team behind schedule. that means congress has to choose to vote to extend another continuing resolution before march 27th or we face a government shutdown. last week i talked to senator johnny isakson, a republican from georgia, on this show. he said a republican shutdown would be a bad idea. >> making sure...
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the pentagon, the obama administration actually trying to cope with that very question, christine. if you call this a war, what are the battlefield rules? if they attack us, if they try and get into u.s. banking systems, what are the rules for the u.s. to retaliate? would the u.s.? a battlefield situation try and take down another country's economic infrastructure, possibly having the impact of denying water, power, electricity to a population and a country we're at war with? these are the fundamental questions the pentagon is trying to cope with. for now, the obama administration has a new spiesh poli -- new cyberpolicy where they're trying to classify more information about the threat with u.s. business and industry so that the u.s. infrastructure has a better idea of what's going on. >> this mandate report doesn't just come out of the ether. we have had years -- barbara, you've been covering it, chris, you, too. years of reports of chinese lasers blinding satellites that are orbiting could essentially shut down the american financial system. right? we've had all kinds of reports
the pentagon, the obama administration actually trying to cope with that very question, christine. if you call this a war, what are the battlefield rules? if they attack us, if they try and get into u.s. banking systems, what are the rules for the u.s. to retaliate? would the u.s.? a battlefield situation try and take down another country's economic infrastructure, possibly having the impact of denying water, power, electricity to a population and a country we're at war with? these are the...
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president obama detailed his blueprint for boosting the middle class. the only new proposal was an old one, raising the minimum wage. >> let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth, no one who works full time should have to live in poverty and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour. >> free action was swift and fierce. conservatives say, hey, that's a jobs killer. progressives say it lifts families out of poverty. the problem, you can't find studies to support just about any position. a study found the new minimum wage actually means fewer jobs for low-skilled workers but a study by alan krueger concludes minl mihm wage hikes dewpoint reduce employment for fast food workers in new jersey. a study from the chicago fed found every $1 rise in the the minimum wage increases household spending by $2,800 over the following year. but just this week, januaet yellin, the vice chair of the federal reserve said raising the minimum wage doesn't fix the problem, stagnant spending by households and businesses. >> i would say that it's not something tha
president obama detailed his blueprint for boosting the middle class. the only new proposal was an old one, raising the minimum wage. >> let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth, no one who works full time should have to live in poverty and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour. >> free action was swift and fierce. conservatives say, hey, that's a jobs killer. progressives say it lifts families out of poverty. the problem, you can't find studies to support just...
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jon, president obama says he wants a big deal on budgets and debt. he won the battle for public opinion. he won a second term while congressional approval continues to be super low. is there something more he could be doing to end the small thinking about big problems that has become the norm in our nation's capital? >> he still wants the grand bargain he's been talking about for several years. this past week he came out and said we need another temporary fix. the term sequester is essentially a fancy word for the president and congress not doing their jobs. you laid it out pretty clearly. the president is late submitting his own budget. so he's part of the problem, too. but he does have the upper hand in the public opinion right now. but republicans are very wary. they think the president just wants more revenue and modest cuts, but he won't do the big structural things to medicare, to social security that are necessary for any part of grand bargain. we're in the game of chicken. another thing is happening, pollsters say every time we do this, consu
jon, president obama says he wants a big deal on budgets and debt. he won the battle for public opinion. he won a second term while congressional approval continues to be super low. is there something more he could be doing to end the small thinking about big problems that has become the norm in our nation's capital? >> he still wants the grand bargain he's been talking about for several years. this past week he came out and said we need another temporary fix. the term sequester is...
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first up, on tuesday in the state of the union, president obama challenged congress to vote on proposals to get weapons of war off our streets. but will it happen? can it happen? we'll talk to a world leader who made it happen in his nation. >>> then, larry summers on how to create jobs in america. the former treasury secretary on how the president can achieve the goals he laid out for the economy. >>> then, many worry that the world's second largest economy is headed for a crash. a rare inside look at the inner workings of the chinese economy. what's really happening there? >>> also, what in the world will get north korea to end its nuclear ambitions? i'll give you my plan. but, first, here's my take. president obama's state of the union address presented an expanded vision of smart government to create jobs and revive the economy. it had many important ideas in it. yet, he lowered his sights on the single policy that would both jump start the economy in the short term and create the conditions for long-term growth. infrastructure spending, having tried several times to propose infrastr
first up, on tuesday in the state of the union, president obama challenged congress to vote on proposals to get weapons of war off our streets. but will it happen? can it happen? we'll talk to a world leader who made it happen in his nation. >>> then, larry summers on how to create jobs in america. the former treasury secretary on how the president can achieve the goals he laid out for the economy. >>> then, many worry that the world's second largest economy is headed for a...
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gunned down a week after performing at president obama's inauguration. cnn's athena jones has more. >> reporter: first lady michelle obama is returning to her hometown to attend a funeral of 15-year-old hadiya pendleton. a bystander shot dead in a chicago park a week after she performed at the president's inauguration. vice president biden memorialized the young honor student in remarks to house democrats. >> this was no ordinary child. she was a child who had used social media urging her friends to speak out. don't join gangs. and now she's gone. >> pendleton was killed a mile from the first family's home in chicago. a city facing an epidemic of gun violence. it's an issue president obama has raised numerous times including in a speech after newtown. >> as a nation, we have endured far too many of these tragedies in the last few years. an elementary school in newtown, shopping mall in oregon, house of worship in wisconsin, a movie theater in colorado, countless street corners and places in places like chicago and philadelphia. >> reporter: and in a vide
gunned down a week after performing at president obama's inauguration. cnn's athena jones has more. >> reporter: first lady michelle obama is returning to her hometown to attend a funeral of 15-year-old hadiya pendleton. a bystander shot dead in a chicago park a week after she performed at the president's inauguration. vice president biden memorialized the young honor student in remarks to house democrats. >> this was no ordinary child. she was a child who had used social media...
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obama's proposals will help the u.s. start to catch up in the great struggle for high-quality human capital that is going to define the next century. for more on this, you can read my column in this week's "time" magazine. let's get started. >>> spies and spy agencies are all over the big screen and in theni nigews these days. hack attacks from china and a new debate over drones and the still-running controversy over torture, which bubbled up again with "zero dark thirty" oscar nominations. national security with a panel of people who come at it from different angles. michael hayden director of cia and nsa and a global security advisory firm. reuel marc gerecht is now senior fellow at the foundation for the defense of democracies. richard haass former top national security official under both presidents bush. he is now president of the council on foreign relations and the author of a forthcoming book "foreign policy begins at home." and jane harman retired from congress after nine terms. a leading legislature on issues f
obama's proposals will help the u.s. start to catch up in the great struggle for high-quality human capital that is going to define the next century. for more on this, you can read my column in this week's "time" magazine. let's get started. >>> spies and spy agencies are all over the big screen and in theni nigews these days. hack attacks from china and a new debate over drones and the still-running controversy over torture, which bubbled up again with "zero dark...
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when james went to meet president obama president obama ran across the room and embraced him and thanked him. >> this was last week, the first time? >> yes, it was. >> did he say thank you for winning me the election? >> i don't think so. i don't know exactly what the words were. >> would you like to have a better relationship with the president? >> i have had ups and downs with presidents. that's the case through history. my most close friends in the white house was george w. senior and james baker. there are some things that the government cannot do and some presidents have called on me and the carter center to perform those duties, that's the main judgment i've made. but i never go into a sensitive area of the world without getting at least tacit approval from the white house. they always know i'm going and if they say don't go, usually i don't go. >> usually? >> one time i decided to go regardless, in 1994 when we were heading toward a war toward noth and south korea and i wrote president clinton a letter and said i've decided to go without your approval, and the vice president, al g
when james went to meet president obama president obama ran across the room and embraced him and thanked him. >> this was last week, the first time? >> yes, it was. >> did he say thank you for winning me the election? >> i don't think so. i don't know exactly what the words were. >> would you like to have a better relationship with the president? >> i have had ups and downs with presidents. that's the case through history. my most close friends in the white...
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obama seems more confident. is this the new obama? is this the old obama? is this the real obama? >> well, the great thing for obama right now is that he has the public on his side. my concern right now -- and that's, i think, will determine which obama will actually prevail -- is that jobs and growth are not on his agenda. it is absolutely stunning. if you go back to the election, he kept campaigning around jobs, rebidding our bridges rebuilding our infrastructure, the american dream, saving it for the middle class. and both the rhetoric and the legislative agenda around these issues is nowhere to be found. >> i think -- i don't think obama has changed much. i mean, i still think that you really want to view him as what used to be a moderate republican. right? he's in favor of expanded health care but not at all any kind of wide-eyed liberal. of course there are no republicans like that anymore. he's operating -- look, in spite of the fact that the wind is at his back in a lot of ways, he's still operating with a very restricted set of possibilities given a republican hard-line m
obama seems more confident. is this the new obama? is this the old obama? is this the real obama? >> well, the great thing for obama right now is that he has the public on his side. my concern right now -- and that's, i think, will determine which obama will actually prevail -- is that jobs and growth are not on his agenda. it is absolutely stunning. if you go back to the election, he kept campaigning around jobs, rebidding our bridges rebuilding our infrastructure, the american dream,...
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the group responding to president obama's state of the union address. the president lays out his case against new gun control laws. >>> here in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in chicago, one woman is making a difference, taking a stand against gang violence your might recognize diane. she was named a top ten cnn hero in 2011. back in 2003, she opened her home to youngsters, giving them a place to go to talk about their hopes and dreams. a place to escape the violence on the streets. that simple gesture led to a nonprofit program called kids off the block, a program that she says has helped thousands of young people. i visited diane and her kids off the block program. take a look. these are some of the most dangerous streets you'll find. we're not in a third-world country. this is chicago. this memorial has one brick for each young life lost in recent years, close to 400 names. some 200 bricks are yet to be placed. diane made it in her fight to stop the violence. you would bring them here and say, they're all you. this is all you, whether you're
the group responding to president obama's state of the union address. the president lays out his case against new gun control laws. >>> here in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in chicago, one woman is making a difference, taking a stand against gang violence your might recognize diane. she was named a top ten cnn hero in 2011. back in 2003, she opened her home to youngsters, giving them a place to go to talk about their hopes and dreams. a place to escape the violence on the...
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student was gunned down a week after performing at president obama's inauguration. police told our affiliates that pendleton had no gang affiliation and was likely not the intended target. we will have a report from chicago that will be coming up later this morning. >>> number three, former illinois congressman jesse jackson jr. has signed a plea deal with prosecutors. the well-known civil rights leader was under investigation for misusing campaign funds. details of that are unknown, but according to local reports out of chicago, he could still face prison time. >>> number four, a judge in cleveland sentenced an amish man behind a string of beard-cutting attacks to 15 years in prison. he was convicted of hate crimes, kidnapping, and conspiracy. and then number five, in phoenix, the murder trial of jodi arias took a dramatic turn this week. arias took the stand and admitted to killing her ex-boyfriend travis alexander. she described how she stabbed him 27 times, shot him in the face, and slit his throat in self-defense. arias will be back on the stand when trial resu
student was gunned down a week after performing at president obama's inauguration. police told our affiliates that pendleton had no gang affiliation and was likely not the intended target. we will have a report from chicago that will be coming up later this morning. >>> number three, former illinois congressman jesse jackson jr. has signed a plea deal with prosecutors. the well-known civil rights leader was under investigation for misusing campaign funds. details of that are unknown,...
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i see michelle obama all over the place. >> there's a mystery, which is what michelle obama wants to do with all this. she keeps doing these charming appearances. a lot of people find them endearing and entertaining. she believes that political capital should be spent, according to her aides. is this all about childhood obesity and military families. is she going to become a more visible spokesperson for the administration? i believe the power and popularity she's accumulating she wants to spend somehow during the rest of the administration. >> it may be a miracle, jodi. it may have been bigger than that. she may have her own political aspirations. i could see in five, ten years time, michelle obama, if this carries on, might be dipping her own toe into political waters. >> if she ever does that, i will come back on your show and i will physically eat my book one page at a time. >> if the first lady is watching, that is something to bear in mind. let's take a break. take a break. let's take a break, donny. you're not anchoring my show tonight. i know you were last week. >> i was in y
i see michelle obama all over the place. >> there's a mystery, which is what michelle obama wants to do with all this. she keeps doing these charming appearances. a lot of people find them endearing and entertaining. she believes that political capital should be spent, according to her aides. is this all about childhood obesity and military families. is she going to become a more visible spokesperson for the administration? i believe the power and popularity she's accumulating she wants...
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also -- president obama, i apologize. and on monday, westminster dog show. on tuesday, the state of the union is coming up. you might have to dvr night two of the dog show because president obama will give the state of the union address on fuss. wednesday, and mark zuckerberg the founder of facebook gets political. he's hosting a fund raiser for new jersey republican governor chris christie's re-election bid. and on thursday, illinois gay marriage legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in illinois could reach the floor. that's on valentine's day. on friday, the asteroid, we're all talking about the asteroid. 150-foot asteroid about half the size of a football field will be the closest shave in known history according to masnasa. coming as close as 17,000 miles to our planet. closer than the tv satellites you're watching me on right now. >>> the grammys aren't the only awards show we're watching today. there are also the baftas. big names, big movies, big drama. becky anderson has more. >> reporter: we have the golden globes, screen actors guild awards, dir
also -- president obama, i apologize. and on monday, westminster dog show. on tuesday, the state of the union is coming up. you might have to dvr night two of the dog show because president obama will give the state of the union address on fuss. wednesday, and mark zuckerberg the founder of facebook gets political. he's hosting a fund raiser for new jersey republican governor chris christie's re-election bid. and on thursday, illinois gay marriage legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in...
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president obama has just issued an emergency declaration for the state of connecticut. the entire northeast is starting to dig out from up to three feet of snow. at least nine deaths are blamed on the storm that pounded the region this weekend. power crews are working to restore electricity to more than 350,000 people. all major airports have resumed flights after more than 5,000 were canceled because of the blizzard. >>> the search has resumed in california's san bernadino mountains for ex-los angeles cop christopher dorner. dorner is a suspect in the killing of three people, including a police officer. in a manifesto pe declared war on l.a. police officers and their families because he was fired from the force in 2008. a report commissioned by the family of joe paterno is absorbing the late coach of cover-up allegations in the jerry sandusky child sex abuse case. the report calls the findings of an earlier investigation conducted for penn state, quote, factually wrong, speculative and fundamentally flawed. in a separate letter to the school's former football plays his
president obama has just issued an emergency declaration for the state of connecticut. the entire northeast is starting to dig out from up to three feet of snow. at least nine deaths are blamed on the storm that pounded the region this weekend. power crews are working to restore electricity to more than 350,000 people. all major airports have resumed flights after more than 5,000 were canceled because of the blizzard. >>> the search has resumed in california's san bernadino mountains...
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barack obama is one person who had the moral authority so be able to say, look, everyone is going to need to compromise. >> what do you think? obviously he's going to go for universal background checks, he's going to fry to use his moral authority to try to get republicans to do what the american public want, which is things like universal background checks, up and down votes on that. do you think he should push for more police? i'm thinking of san bernardino, we've been talking about those police who just did a heroic job and that police department is bankrupt. that city is bankrupt. they were thinking of outsourcing their police. this is a problem around the country. >> there's a range of solutions to this problem. i think we ought to take a comprehensive view. putting more police on the streets. universal background checks. what are you going to do about assault wes? mental health piece of this. i think that you have to take the broadest view possible and say, what are we going to do to stop the slaughter of 33 people who are dying every single day because of gun violence? and tha
barack obama is one person who had the moral authority so be able to say, look, everyone is going to need to compromise. >> what do you think? obviously he's going to go for universal background checks, he's going to fry to use his moral authority to try to get republicans to do what the american public want, which is things like universal background checks, up and down votes on that. do you think he should push for more police? i'm thinking of san bernardino, we've been talking about...
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didn't you just get obama care and get all that? are you saying you didn't do all you could with obama care? >> you know, the president has been willing to do entitlement savings, and he's there said he would do $400 billion more in medicare savings. that's very difficult. in the state of the union, he said he would be willing to have the same out year savings in medicare that the simpson-bowles commission does. when republicans say the president is not serious about entitlement savings or spending cuts, that's just patently false, and that offer that he gave to speaker boehner and still keeps on the table, the fact that he said that in the state of the union, all shows his commitment. all we're asking for is to have that basic balance and compromise where you say, if you're going to put -- if you're going to put entitlement savings, put medicare reforms on the table, let's at least insure that you're closing some loopholes and tax expenditures and you're not saying the entire burden of deficit reduction is going to go on education
didn't you just get obama care and get all that? are you saying you didn't do all you could with obama care? >> you know, the president has been willing to do entitlement savings, and he's there said he would do $400 billion more in medicare savings. that's very difficult. in the state of the union, he said he would be willing to have the same out year savings in medicare that the simpson-bowles commission does. when republicans say the president is not serious about entitlement savings...